A Brockton woman is frantically looking for her lost dog just days after she adopted the pup, who was rescued from the illegal meat trade industry in Thailand.

Benjamin Paulin The Enterprise @benpaulin_ENT

BROCKTON - A Brockton woman is frantically looking for her lost dog just days after she adopted the pup, who was rescued from the illegal meat trade industry in Thailand.

Nancy Robinson was taking Jaeyon, her 1 1/2 year old female rescue dog, for a walk Tuesday when the leash slipped out of her hand as she was coming out of her Oak Lane apartment in Brockton. She is offering a $1,200 reward for her safe return.

Jaeyon was last seen Wednesday at the D.W. Field Golf Course on Oak Street wearing a red collar and dragging a red leash.

“I was heading out my door and for some reason she stopped and when I stopped to grab the door her leash slipped out of my hand and she went running,” Robinson said. "It’s been horrible. I feel so guilty, I feel sad."

Robinson was ecstatic on Saturday when she got to meet Jaeyon for the first time when she picked her up at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick R.I. from Thailand to bring her home.

Jaeyon was rescued in Thailand last June by the Bangkok-based Soi Dog Foundation, which rescues dogs from the illegal dog meat trade industry.

"When they got her she was very sick, very thin, emaciated," Robinson said.

Robinson described Jaeyon as a mix that looks like a black lab. She weighs 25 pounds, has a black coat with a white patch on her chest and a thin white line going from her forehead to the tip of her nose.

She has been searching in the area of the D.W. Field Golf Course for the past two days and was pleasantly surprised when complete strangers offered to help join the search.

"It's been great. People have been coming out in different shifts even bringing their own dogs to try and help find her," Robinson said. "A woman from Marblehead I don’t even know contacted me on Facebook and said she was available to help look today."

Robinson said Jaeyon is friendly but very shy and skittish from what she went through in Thailand. She said Jaeyon likes people and other dogs.

She asks that anyone who sees Jaeyon contact the Brockton Animal Control officer at 508-580-7835.